Astonishing thing George VI and Queen Mother did the same day they were bombed

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KING George VI and the Queen Mother epitomised the Blitz spirit in WW2 when Buckingham Palace was bombed and they kept calm and carried on but a resurfaced letter has revealed what they actually did that afternoon.

She wrote: “We lunched down in our shelter, and luckily at about 1:30 the all-clear sounded, so we were able to set out on a tour of East and West Ham ‒ the damage there is ghastly.“All the houses evacuated, and yet through the broken windows one saw all the poor little possessions, photographs, beds, just as they were left.

 

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